Good evening, it's Thursday, May 4th. This is the Jive at
Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming here on
88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU offers talk radio from NPR and Pacifica,
as well as independent and local public affairs sources. Weeknights and
weekends our student and community volunteers bring you the best in free-form
programming.
I'm Ben Michael, Thanx for tuning in!
Here's a rundown of what's going down in our area this week.
The Middletown ART WALK happens tonight and every first
Thursday, from 5-8pm and tours local galleries featuring work by local artists
and crafts for kids and grownups. https://www.facebook.com/artwalkct to learn
where to meetup.
Tonight, The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown opens a new Galley
show, "Seeing the Unseen: Connecting to Creation" a display of Magic
Realism by Phoebe Legere. Later, tonight
it’s Bob Gotta’s monthly Acoustic Open Mic at The Buttonwood. Friday, Story City Troupe brings you a night
of storytelling. Saturday, morning brings the weekly Aligned with the Source
workshop. Saturday evening, DenMar Jamz!
with Carol Hahn. Sunday the theater troupe, Concrete Tomato, with History of
the Future and Cloud 9. http://buttonwood.org
Here at Wesleyan University in Middletown in the World Music
Hall tonight (thurs) evening, The Beginner Javanese Gamelan ensemble will
perform with a prelude by the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble. Heinrich Isaac
performs “Hofkomponist to Emperor Maximilian I” on Friday, May 5, followed by
Wesleyan Korean Drumming and Taiko Ensembles in the Crowell Concert Hall. The
Spring Faculty Dance Concert: Shake takes the stage Friday, May 5, and Saturday
in the CFA Theater. You can see the Wesleyan University Orchestra Concert on
Saturday, May 6, in the Crowell Concert Hall. Full details at
www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Tonight (Thurs) at Cafe Nine in New Haven, MARBIN and
Strawberry Cheesesteak, make for a night for a night of genre bending
progressive jazz-rock. Café Nine’s
Weekly Friday Wind Down Happy Hour features LYNN MALAVOLTE and SOLIN at
5pm. Later, Friday night, Café Nine presents a CD release party for KINDRED
QUEER. DR. CATERWAUL'S CADRE OF CLAIRVOYANT CLAPTRAPS shares that bill.
Saturday's weekly JAZZ JAM is WITH MIKE COPPOLA AND FRIENDS this week. Saturday
night JACQUES LE COQUE, DUST HAT and THE RIGHT OFFS, offer a night of rough,
raw, fuzzy rock n' roll. "The Sunday Buzz" Matinee at Café Nine from
Cygnus Radio features MARCH & BEAUTY and JELLYSHIRTS, and THE STRAY BIRDS
and Five in the Chamber play later on. www.cafenine.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight, you can catch
the premiere of the CT Blues Society’s ANNUAL BAND CHALLENGE where bands
compete to win a chance to represent CT in Memphis in the national finals!
Tomorrow/Friday brings MIXED SIGNALS- CINCO DE MAYO PARTY. On Saturday, SHAKA
& THE SOUL SHAKERS play WITH THE SCISSORMEN for some rockin' slide
guitar. www.blackeyedsallys.com
At Toad’s Place in New Haven
Thursday, you can catch PNB ROCK with Daveon and DJ Meechie & Hosted
by G.Money da Prince**. Friday the 5th, brings the SPRING HEELED JACK USA
RECORD RELEASE PARTY to Toad’s featuring The Doped Up Dollies and The Snails.
Sunday night, AB-SOUL’s YMF TOUR stops at Toads. www.toadsplace.com
Manic's Presents Twiddle and Sinkane tis Friday (5/5) at the
College Street Music Hall in New Haven. Saturday, Manic Presents Mayday Parade:
A Lesson In Romantics 10th Anniversary Tour with musical guests Knuckle Puck,
and Milestones, at the College Street Music Hall. Additionally on Saturday,
Manic presents Preoccupations and Furnsss at The Ballroom at The Outer Space
inHamden. Sunday, The Cult and VOWWS take the stage at the College Street Music
Hall. www.manicproductions.org for details.
This Saturday, Cross Street AME Zion Church, Middlesex
Chapter of NAACP, and Wesleyan
University presents a COLLEGE FAIR AND
ADMISSIONS WORKSHOP from 11 am – 3 pm. At Cross Street AME Zion Church on West
Street in Middletown more info at 860-344-9527 or crossstreetchurch@snet.net
State Representative Matt Lesser will host ARTFARM’s seventh
Shakespeare Slam on Saturday, May 6 at the Community Health Center in
Middletown. This year’s theme is “Speak Truth To Power” and will feature over
twenty performers raising funds to Benefit ARTFARM's 2017 Shakespeare in the
Grove production of Hamlet, which will run July 12 -23. For more information about performing, sponsoring a
performer, or attending Shakespeare Slam VII, go to www.art-farm.org, or email
info@art-farm.org.
This Sunday, brings The CROMWELL RECORD RIOT! To The
Radisson Hotel from 9:30 AM until 3:30
PM. The event features over 45 dealer tables selling LP's. 45's, CD's,
DVD's, Collectibles, much more. http://recordriots.com/cromwell
Now, here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Through next Thursday, Hartford’s Real Art Ways is showing A
QUIET PASSION, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson in this biopic.
Friday, Real Art Ways opens a run of: opens CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY,
about the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of
cities. Sunday RAW is also showing Buster Keaton’s silent classic THE GENERAL -
WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT. Details & screening times at
www.realartways.org
Through Thursday, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford
is showing the French film, Personal Shopper, the tale of a young American
working as the personal shopper to an obnoxiously wealthy socialite in Paris,
whilst trying to connect with her dead twin at the same time. Friday and Saturday,
Cinestudio presents The Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films 2017: Saturday evening, Trinity Film Festival
returns to Cinestudio for the 6th year. On Sunday, you can see Land of Mine, a
story exploring the moment when war ends and the road to rediscovering one’s
humanity begins. www.cinestudio.org
Back here in Middletown, at the Russell Library’s Hubbard
Room on Saturday at 1 p.m., you can catch a screening of Ava DuVernay's film
'13th', which links the 13th amendment to mass incarceration will be shown.
Details at www.russelllibrary.org
Now, here's what's on the air tonight, on WESU:
Right after the Jive stick around for Homegrown with Rob
DeRosa featuring Connecticut Connected music until 6:30pm.
After that until 8pm, Imagine with Karen Stein, offers peace
through music! With uplifting music from around the world and around the block!
From 8-8:30pm
tonight, The Radical Radio with Oracle offers a weekly update on progressive
news, that combines interviews, reporting, and discussion to look at the
current state of the American left.
At 8:30 its back to the music on Evening Jazz with Bill
Denert, where "Hearing is the best experience" offering a broad range
of swing, be bop and avante garde with a sprinkling of new releases.
At 10om Jazzalicious Definition with MC Mcgee and DJ
Stocks'n'Socks offers an hour of
Jazz and jazz influenced music with something different
every week.
From 11-midnight The American Empire with, Tootse Mutant
explores the effects of American Cultural Imperialism on the world's
soundscape. From Peruvian Punk to Japanese Jazz we'll take a look at how other
countries have adopted American music styles.
At midnight The Audible Underground with Joshinvents invites
listeners to explore a variety of underground music by independent or
relatively unknown artists from many genres, while occasionally discussing
current events neglected by mainstream media.
From 1-2am Festival Files with DJ Frita takes a look back at
legendary folk and rock concerts from around the country and the music idols
that dominated the stages throughout the years.
From 2-4am DJ coroner's last will & testimony Haunts the
midnight airwaves with an eclectic mix of oneiric, experimental sounds.
Ambient, noise, drone, footwork, art pop, poetry readings and more.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. Tune in each and every
weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the
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